House and Garden 
STARTING A PANSY BED 
TXyTHO does not love pansies with 
their bright little velvety faces 
upturned to yours ? Everyone ought to 
have a bed of these old-time favorites, 
and a bed once started will give pleasure 
for many a year. If you wish to start 
such a bed this year, it is well to start the 
seeds in the house in order to have the 
blossoms come in good season. If 
started in March, they should be ready 
to bloom by the first of July. 
It is important to start with good seed. 
While you can get a package for three or 
five cents, you will be well repaid if you 
pay a higher price, by the greater size 
and variety of the flowers. Plant seeds 
in a shallow wooden box filled with rich 
garden loam. Cover thinly with a 
sprinkling of dirt and press down firmly 
with the hands. Put in a warm, sunny 
window and keep well watered, and 
soon the little plants will begin to appear. 
When the second leaves come, transplant 
if they are crowded at all. 
As soon as the frost is out of the 
ground, prepare a permanent bed for 
them. It should be in a partially shaded 
location, for they do not thrive well 
when they have the hot sunshine all day. 
It should be well spaded up and a good 
quantity of well rotted manure added. 
You can hardly get it too rich. The 
little plants are quite hardy and they can 
be set in the open ground earlier than 
most seedlings. In transplanting for 
the last time, be sure to give each plant 
plenty of room, for they spread out 
enough to occupy quite a space, and as 
it seeds itself, new plants will start up 
between these another year. Plenty of 
water and plenty of fertilizer are two 
requisites. If nitrate of soda is added to 
water, in the proportion of one ounce to 
a gallon of water, and given them once a 
week, the stems will grow longer, and be 
an advantage when arranging flowers 
for the house. The flowers should 
be picked freely, for the more they are 
picked, the more they will bloom. 
Before the first snow comes, in the late 
fall, give the bed some protection. I 
like best a few spruce boughs piled 
lightly over it. When these are removed 
in the spring, you will find the plants all 
ready to send forth their buds with the 
warm, sunny days, while the new plants 
starting up from self-sown seed will fur¬ 
nish bloom for the late summer and fall. 
—Farm and Home. 
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